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In 1997, the world population was approximately 5,924,787,816 people[†]
1997Karim Walid, Egyptian footballer[†]
Karim Walid Sayed Saleh Hassan commonly known as Nedvěd is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Al Ahly and the Egypt U-20. He is a product of Al Ahly youth academy. He got his nickname in the youth team as his position and looks were similar to the Czech legend Pavel Nedvěd.
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Northeast states suffering through bad smog season will petition Environmental Protection Agency to crack down on Midwestern utilities, where much of pollution originates; Maine, Massachusetts, New York and other 'downwind' states agree to common legal strategy that will press Federal agency to act aggressively on problem of wind-borne smog that crosses state lines and contributes to unhealthful air across Northeast; petitions, brought under Clean Air Act, will ask EPA to impose strict new emissions limits on specific sources of pollution, especially on coal-fired electric utility plants in states like Ohio, where pollution is not so tightly regulated as in Northeast; map; graph (M)
F.C.C. Moves to Cut Costs Of Phone Calls Overseas The F.C.C. issued tough new rules to reduce the payments that American telephone companies make to foreign carriers to complete their calls.
Ending a manhunt that stretched from the subways of New York to the barrios of Mexico City, United States immigration agents arrested a father and son accused of leading an operation that smuggled deaf Mexicans into the United States and forced them to live in virtual slavery peddling trinkets. Both were taken into custody in Mexico City. Article, page B3.
As managed care companies move into area of mental health, many psychiatrists fear patients are being overlooked by organizations eager to scrimp on insurance costs; doctors say seriously ill patients are often discharged from mental health units after just few days, trapping them in cycle of hospitalization, relapse and hospitalization; managed care companies defend practice as reigning in undisciplined and wasteful spending on mental health care, where it is often hard to measure extent of patient's progress; payment by Tenet Healthcare Corp, which changed its named from Medical Enterprises, of $100 million to settle 700 claims of mistreatment by former psychiatric patients in Texas discussed; mental health care professionals say company came to symbolize excesses of era when corporate thirst for insurance dollars overrode patients' needs; photos (M)
Hundreds of thousands of people gather in Central Park for free concert by country singer Garth Brooks; police estimate crowd at between 225,000 and 250,000 people; Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani designates Aug 7 as Garth Brooks Day; photos (M)
Dr Vincent Lambriola, dentist from Cedar Grove, NJ, whose office is on Upper East Side of Manhattan, is arrested after patient reports that she awoke from anesthesia to find him clad only in pair of high black socks (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
WORKFARE AGREEMENT -- Mayor Giuliani has reached an agreement with municipal unions pledging to provide adequate safety protections for workfare participants and asserting that they are not intended to displace city workers. B2. SMUGGLING SUSPECTS SEIZED -- Two more men accused of smuggling deaf Mexican peddlers into the United States were arrested. B3. DIFFERING EXPLANATIONS -- City engineers and the landlords of a five-story building in Brooklyn offered starkly different explanations for the building's collapse. B3. WITHHOLDING BENEFITS -- A provision in the welfare bill would deny state-financed benefits to legal immigrants in their first year here. B4.
Mutual fund investors, seven months into 1997, have already made year second best ever for stock funds; bond funds have also recorded their best year since 1993 (Market Place) (M)
Prosecutors have subpoenaed parents of Amy Grossberg, Wyckoff teen-ager who is accused of killing her newborn son, so that prosecutors can compel them to disclose why their daughter hid her pregnancy (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
Gov Christine Todd Whitman signs legislation giving users of managed-care programs certain protections that consumer organizations describe as strongest in nation (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
Officials in Chicago suburb of Addison, Ill, settle Federal and private class-action lawsuits that accused town of trying to force its Hispanic residents to move away; Addison's local government bulldozed several apartment buildings that were predominantly Hispanic three years ago, claiming buildings were blighted; in settlement, village denies it intentionally discriminated, but agrees to build affordable housing to replace what it tears down, pay moving costs or compensation to dozens of families, deposit $30,000 in fair housing fund and put up community center and parks in two Hispanic neighborhoods; cost of damages to families and fair-housing groups alone, up to $1.4 million, makes settlement one of largest by municipality in fair-housing suit; Justice Dept and housing officials say Hispanic residents have become target of kind of bias that blacks once faced, where government programs or zoning laws are used as discriminatory tools; photos (L)
State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, whose success in bringing home government dollars to his Brooklyn neighborhood won him popularity and political influence, was indicted yesterday on Federal corruption charges. Mr. Hikind denounced the charges as ''scurrilous.'' Article, page B1.